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He didn’t go quite that far, but he was playing stupid with what calling him an Uncle Tom means, insinuating that a black guy calling another black guy an UT may not be that bad because it denigrates an individual instead of an entire race.

As a Civil/Structural Engineer I fucking love roads. I drive on some rural/mountainous roads because I simply love to marvel at the engineering. However, these mega transportation bills never put people like me to work. Instead they go to the engineering megacorporations and the budget gets blown on study after study and excessive planning with no action. By the time the work gets to a guy like me the project is 2 years late and overbudget and it will be my fault if it isn’t done next Friday.

And unfortunately, there’s no way to keep the feds from dipping their fingers in that particular pie. Madison could get away with vetoing a national roads bill because at that time, the country was sparsely populated and most people traveled on old Indian trails anyway, or had carved out well-worn paths from the farming settlements to the cities. So he could reasonably state that the federal government didn’t need to get involved.

But in a complex, mass society with over 300 million people, where the vast majority of goods we consume come from somewhere other than where we live, it’s inevitable that the feds are going to get involved in a nationalized infrastructure in order to facilitate the movement of those goods.

No way, unless it’s been really warm in Montreal, it’s definitely colder than NYC has been. I’m in Chicago now and it’s still significantly colder here than NYC, and not nearly as cold here as it was when I lived in Montreal (ending 2006).

I’m headed to the Mississippi Blues Trail and Little Rock next week. If I see the devil at the crossroads, or Hillary at the Clinton Museum (but now I’m being redundant), I’ll tell ’em y’all say “hey.”

According to the arrest report, 41-year-old Steuber, who works as an aide at Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday, was pulled over early Saturday morning going 69 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone along State Road 56 in Wesley Chapel.

Once she pulled over, deputies noted the strong smell of alcohol. When she tried explaining where she had been, deputies said Steuber began slurring and mumbling, as she told them she had a few drinks at a bar in St. Petersburg.

When deputies asked Steuber to get out of the car so they could perform a field sobriety test, they said they realized she was completely nude from the waist down, wearing only a shirt and bra.

This is what happens when your channel goes full retard on gun control. There is only a reasonably small swath of America that really wants to put the screws in on gun control, yet, because the media is part of that swath and those in the media simply can’t imagine anything other than their experience, the news channels act as if virtually everyone wants it. Then they wonder why no one watches.

Good for America, bad for India. The last time the US pulled out of Afghanistan, a whole bunch of asshole jihadis went after India. These assholes basically have to fight at least 1 of 3 infidel enemies at any given time – America, Israel, or India.

That’s what Nicholas Freudenberg says in “Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health,” and Mark Bittman is writing about it in the NYT today:

It sounds creepy; it is creepy. But it’s also plain to see. Yes, it’s unlikely there’s a cabal that sits down and asks, “How can we kill more kids tomorrow?” But Freudenberg details how six industries ? food and beverage, tobacco, alcohol, firearms, pharmaceutical and automotive ? use pretty much the same playbook to defend the sales of health-threatening products….

Inorite? Statistically, if you make 26, you’re very likely to see 65 and a large percentage will see 80. American life expectancy is fucked up because it is more dangerous for people, especially males, aged 14-24 than many other places.

How many more people will die every year without autos to transport people to hospitals, pharmaceuticals to treat even the smallest infected scratches, alcohol to make horrible marriages tolerable, etc.? Fuck these guys.

This actually made the BBC. About half the comments were mocking Texas at large. The other half were split between blaming the victim and blaming the cops. Almost none pointed out the pattern of abuse by police.

I live in central Texas, near Austin. I suggested on my neighborhood Facebook page that the cops were way out of line. Many agreed, but just as many insisted that she got what she asked for. Some even said that her wearing headphones was a provocation; that she should be ready to respond to cops anytime should they need to bark commands at her.

“Libertarian and liberty doesn’t mean libertine,” he explained. Paul might have added that libertarianism isn’t synonymous with “uncharitable” or “selfish” or a “Social Darwinist,” either. He might have argued that libertarianism would do a lot more than just help orthodox Christians politically. It may even be the most conducive political philosophy for them to thrive.

Obviously, for those who measure the nation’s virtue by the size of the Department of Health and Human Services budget, Rand’s proposition must seem absurd. Take Elizabeth Stoker, who, writing in Salon, believes that “Rand Paul’s audacious new sham” is a “phony religious epiphany”:

If what Paul intends to say here is that Christianity and libertarianism are amenable to one another because Christianity provides the moral compass libertarianism doesn’t have ? that is, that one can protect marriage and defend against oft-objected to practices like abortion through the selective reference to Christian values by otherwise libertarian political agents ? the question is: Why would someone with such a commitment to Christianity ever commit themselves to a political philosophy without a similar commitment?

If suffering from John’s Disease, please consult your doctor. Symptoms may include vicious insults, long threads, misspelling, and the love for larger women. Help, however, can be found by taking a deep breath and not giving a fuck.

Excellent! I am awarding myself the Corona Civilis. Also a triumph. All H&R commenters will be invited to the triumphal feast. Now, I need to go order the Treasury to give me about 750 talents of silver and 200 talents of gold…

You know, this gives me an idea. Since leftists enjoy high tax rates on wealthier Americans as much, if not more, for their punitive value as for extracting wealth, perhaps it would make everyone happy if taxpayers had the option of putting their hand in a box of pain (stimulating nerve endings but not actually permanently damaging anything) for ten minutes or paying their taxes.

Moore argued that the current argument that the burning of fossil fuels is driving global warming over the past century lacks scientific evidence. He added that the Earth is in an unusually cold period and some warming would be a good thing.

“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” according to Moore’s prepared testimony. “Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.”…

He’s such an idiot. My wife said last night, “he seems to make a lot of gaffes.” In which I responded, ‘and will get elected nonetheless.’

He’s a commie liberal and the anti-Harper train express is too strong at the moment. It’s exactly what happened in the USA. People were ‘Bushed out’ and this led to a lame-ass like Obama being elected.

Canada will soon have Obama-light ruling the country. What a fucking mess.

The thing is, there’s no excuse to have made such a joke. None. Any thinking man with any sense of deep thought would have avoided it. But he’s an emotional feller (what, being a drama teacher and all) and tends to ignore rational thought.

Green meltdown in Germany. The green shit is hitting the reality fan. Green energy doesn’t make a difference ecologically and it puts a lot of poor people in jeopardy.

“17% Of All German Households Now In Energy Poverty! Spiegel Writes Of An Energy Cost Explosion!”

Electricity, heating and hot water are hardly affordable for more and more German citizens. 6.9 million households have according to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE spend more than one in ten euros for energy – in 2008 there were only 5.5 million households.

In its annual report, the the Expert Commission on Research and Innovation concludes that the Green Energy Law is neither a cost-effective tool for climate protection nor does it have any measurable impact on innovation. “For both reasons, therefore, there is no justification for the continuation of the EEG ,” concludes the report which will be presented to the Chancellor on Wednesday.

The same thing is happening in the UK. IIRC, many people have resorted to burning wood, which is decidedly not green.

Only if you’re cutting down vast amounts of otherwise healthy trees to do it. The vast majority of wood that I (and most of the people I know who burn wood for heat) use is cut from already downed trees. We had an ice storm a few weeks ago that busted up a bunch of cedar trees in my yard. That will be a good chunk of next year’s firewood. I’ve NEVER cut down a healthy tree.

And even if the act of burning wood isn’t green, it’s certainly greener than using up fucktons of electricity made from burning coal.

Here’s the thing. When I discovered Reason back in 2003 or thereabouts, it took me about, five minutes, to figure out the backbone of libertarian thought (non-aggression principal). Once this sets in your head, it’s not that hard to follow the logic and flow of its positions. Sure, it’s been 11 years and I’m still learning but for the life of me can’t understand the lies perpetuated against it.

I guess it was a perfect storm of sorts. I had grown increasingly annoyed with progressivism. I pretty much keep to myself, don’t like people all that much, hate crowds and detest organizations. I never join them.

But for the first time (outside of sports), I found something I can latch on to.

Just be sure to time your reveal so that it does not coincide with a troll pulling a “screw you guys, I’m going home” or it will take months to get the commentariat to realize you’re not a sock puppet.

They are African-American 20-somethings, members of the so-called post-racial era that began with President Obama’s election, whose lives have been lived largely free of overt racism.

For many of them, the very notion of Black History Month is a trite anachronism. It’s a time given over to rote recitations of a few well-known factoids about the lives of King, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, maybe a few others.

But how much resonance can such recitations have for people who had the option of voting for a black candidate in their very first presidential election? A candidate who won? Twice?

There are a whole lot of people who want to replay the 60s, which requires acting as though race relations are stuck in the 60s.

The ENTIRE left acts as if it’s still the 60s in terms of race relations. Why do you think Rachel Maddow asked Rand Paul how he would have voted on the CRA? People like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton have made millions from it. And as long as it works, they will continue to do it, even when everyone who was alive during the 60s is long dead. Because misdirection and strawmen are all they have.

One of my drinking buddies is black. He’s a lawyer doing some awesome real estate stuff. My wife is black. She’s an accountant doing awesome finance stuff. Black History Month has never come up as a topic. Ever. I think it’s important to Baby Boomer Blacks. The ones who invented Kwanzaa. To the rest, not so much.

Oh, it’s also important to ESPN, CNN, etc. to prove their liberal cred.

American Atheists, an outspoken organization that advocates for atheists nationwide, will have a booth at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference.

The atheist institution, which is well known for its controversial billboards and media campaigns, informed CNN of its inclusion on Monday night, and a representative from CPAC confirmed that the group will have a booth at the annual national gathering of conservative leaders and activists in March. American Atheists hopes to use the forum to tap into the conservative movement and bring conservative atheists “out of the closet.”

I kid, I kid. Besides, for all the atheist-bashing conservatives perpetrate it’s usually against liberal pandering to nontheists and hostility toward Christians. The left isn’t exactly a safe harbor for someone espousing religious freedom and government noninvolvement.

“Conservative isn’t a synonym for religious,” Silverman said. “I am not worried about making the Christian right angry. The Christian right should be angry that we are going in to enlighten conservatives. The Christian right should be threatened by us.”

or this–

In 2013, American Atheists launched a billboard campaign against three Republican politicians: former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. All three Republicans have spoken at CPAC in the past.

Maybe an atheist group that wasn’t so clearly leftist? One that understands that ‘outreach’ doesn’t mean ‘attack’.

President Obama will either announce a new $302 billion transportation bill this year, or the “vision” for one.

This would explain the propaganda piece (featuring a guest appearance by Ray la Hood) on the weather channel this morning about the BILLIONS of potholes and crumbling roadz in this our once-great land.

Also, the headline on the Google News about road closures in St Paul. Suck it, peasants, your Lord and Master is coming to town!

This would explain the propaganda piece (featuring a guest appearance by Ray la Hood) on the weather channel this morning about the BILLIONS of potholes and crumbling roadz in this our once-great land.

I’m so glad DirecTV is still in a contract dispute with the corporate owners of the Weather Channel over carriage fees. Even if I do prefer the graphics package they use to what Weather Nation has.

The “problem” was caused by the state, as the guy unwittingly admits, in the form of bad inheritance laws:

He suggests that if there is insufficient support for a return to the old law, another alternative would be a change to legislation so that inheritance is not automatically divided equally among one’s offspring.

“If the Code of Inheritance is changed, a father or mother would have the right to reward those offspring who have helped them, kept them in mind and taken care of them in their old age,” Kangas proposes.

Crispin Glover starred as George McFly in 1985’s “Back to the Future,” but he didn’t appear in the film’s subsequent sequels. Why? As it turns out, Glover had serious issues with the Robert Zemeckis movie’s finale, a bit of wish fulfillment that imagines the McFly clan as wealthy and materialistic. “It made me realize that something was specifically going on in how corporate media was both funded and distributed,” Glover told HuffPost Live host Ricky Camilleri. “It affirmed some value system. Maybe it’s corporate value systems as opposed to humans’ value systems.”

Yes, it’s unconscionable that the movie would reward George McFly for punching Biff out and thus regaining his manhood and self-confidence with material wealth.

What kind of message is that? He should have been made even more emasculated in the new timeline!

Must admit to having a soft spot for Crispin Glover, if only for River’s Edge. If he wants to talk bollocks and create lunatic art, fine by me. He ain’t telling me who to vote for, and he has to go around being called Crispin, so I’ll cut him some slack.

George became financially successful because he had the confidence to try and make living doing what he loved, writing science fiction, rather than settling for what he could get. The alternate George was a happier man in all aspects of life than the original George.

At a recent conference on tax and regulatory policy sponsored by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, Phil Kerpen, president of the free-market organization American Commitment, noted that Democratic lawmakers are quietly cheering the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping regulation of carbon emissions and other new rules that effectively ban the construction of new coal plants. Those lawmakers know that these EPA rules would be political suicide to pass as legislation, so the Left has the agency implement them as regulation, and do it only in the president’s second term.

Thus the party that spent the Bush years screaming about the “Imperial Presidency” overwhelmingly decides that the legislative branch is an unnecessary obstacle to setting its preferred environmental policy. We’ve reached the point where vehemently anti-Bush Democrats in Congress now write up executive orders for President Obama to implement unilaterally.

The legislative branch matters, until it doesn’t. The filibuster matters, until it doesn’t. Yesterday’s positions get dropped if they interfere with today’s needs. The Right is dealing with extremely adaptive foes who, for the most part, have no hesitation about lying to get what they want.

A trove of rare Gold Rush-era coins unearthed in California last year by a couple as they walked their dog may be the greatest buried treasure ever found in the United States, worth more than $10 million, a currency firm representing the pair said on Tuesday.

The 1,400 gold pieces, dating to the mid- to late 1800s and still in nearly mint condition, were discovered buried in eight decaying metal cans on the couple’s land last April, said coin expert David McCarthy of currency firm Kagin’s.

Unbanked and underbanked Americans pay a hefty price for their lack of access. According to the Postal Service IG report, the average household spends $2,412 a year on interest and fees for alternative financial services. This is about one-tenth of their gross income, going right into the corporate accounts of unscrupulous and predatory operations. If the post office can deliver these services at a dramatic discount, they could save families thousands of dollars, and drive the conglomerates that prey on these communities out of business. Not only does this fit with the regulatory imperative of protecting Americans from financial abuse, it gives them breathing room to pay for necessities, putting the money back into the economy. People who filed for bankruptcy in 2012 were just $26 a month short of meeting their expenses. Discounted financial services could fill that gap, lifting many Americans out of desperation and stretching their income.

Ending recessions. Truly. Postal banking would integrate well with the concept of giving everyone with a Social Security number an ATM account with the Federal Reserve, instead of intermediating it through a commercial bank. The physical ATMs could be at any of the 35,000 postal branches nationwide (or through their mobile-enabled postal account). Rajiv Sehti, an economics professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, explains that this would allow the Fed to directly target economic downturns. When the economy lags, the Fed could place a few hundred dollars in everyone’s account, with the proviso that it gets spent immediately. That would offer an immediate and timely Keynesian stimulus, paid for by normal Fed operations (the Fed made $79.5 billion last year alone).

And just think of the efficiency of the IRS being able to make direct withdrawals from you account, not to mention the NSA being able to cut off your funds as easy as flipping a switch. 1984 has arrived in full.

The IRS can already do that, and in fact they do if you owe them enough money.

Back in the early 90’s my parents ended up owing over $250,000 to the IRS when one of their businesses went belly up. They basically could not have a bank account because anytime money was deposited into it the IRS would withdraw it immediately

One thing I’ve always felt presented a serious problem for libertarians is the difficulty in arguing against people who aren’t basing their arguments in reality. We’re not really utopians, so when someone like this imbecile promises some bold new program that will end poverty, outlaw recessions forever, make everyone richer, and not cost you anything–well, our natural instinct is to cross our arms and point out that these things aren’t possible for a government program, even if we’d like for them to be.

But of course, the problem is that people really don’t like being told that magic isn’t real, so that of course leads to the accusations that we’re all just “selfish” and “cynical” no matter how many times our predictions play themselves out to the letter.

So how, in a democracy, can one persuade people with honesty and principle, when the other guy is just going to pound the table and promise everyone that he’ll make all of their wishes come true?

And remember that is an average. A lot of people really can’t pay. A good number of bankruptcies are filed by degenerate gamblers and drug addicts with hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit car debt.

So for the average to be that low, there must be a lot of people who can make their payments but have it granted anyway.

They need to repeal that exemption and make those discharged in bankruptcy. Maybe not totally dischargeable but eligible for a judge ordered cram down and readjustment.

I would pay for covering the federal guarantees by a surtax on all college endowments over a billion dollars. The colleges basically stole the money from the feds and the students. I would give it back.

I think making any loans discharged by bankruptcy half the lender and half the institution would just about cure the problem. I’ll even add in a sop for the student who thinks they can just declare bankruptcy and move on. They cannot be discharged within seven years of the last loan received. That should give everyone enough skin in the game to find a reasonable accommodation.

I’d make it bankruptable, but get rid of the federal backing. Force the banks to actually look at what schools and what degrees people are getting instead of making it rain for $90,000 puppetry in women’s studies majors at Bryn Mawr.

Yes, because going to the Post Office to mail something isn’t bad enough already. “Why did my check bounce?” “You’re overdrawn. Any stamps today? Would you like to open a holiday savings account? Is your deposit liquid, fragile, or hazardous?”

On Hit n’ Run, I usually hover over links and inspect them warily as if they are a cat turd on carpet. And then occasionally there are links, like this one, that I instantly click on without reservation.

China’s credit-market gauges are triggering alarm bells, as banks grow cautious in lending to each other while investors prefer the safest government bonds.

The spread between the two-year sovereign yield and the similar-maturity interest-rate swap, a gauge of financial stress, reached 121 basis points on Feb. 19, the widest in Bloomberg data going back to 2007. Two days later, the cost to lock in the three-month Shanghai interbank offered rate for one year reached an eight-month high of 94 basis points over similar contracts based on repurchase agreements, which are considered safer because they involve government securities as collateral.

Billionaire investors George Soros and Bill Gross have drawn parallels between the situation in China now and that in the U.S. before the 2008 financial crisis…

Further proof of Global Warmingz: in the period between last Friday afternoon and yesterday morning, I have had a cumulative snowfall of two fucking feet. I admit it. I surrender. I’m ready for Spring.

The 1,400 gold pieces, dating to the mid- to late 1800s and still in nearly mint condition, were discovered buried in eight decaying metal cans on the couple’s land last April, said coin expert David McCarthy of currency firm Kagin’s.

Those coins were hidden to keep them from being confiscated during the New Deal. Obviously, they must be seized by Treasury agents, and those people should be fined another five million dollars.

I have a coin that FDR should have seized, but it was hiding in a bag until my dad bought the house and knocked out a wall. 1902 ten dollar gold piece in perfect condition. Dad sold the other 12 in the mid-1980s.

One of my crooked uncles made off with a $10 gold piece that belonged to my grandmother. It was given to her by Buffalo Bill (no shit) when she met him as a little girl. My mother’s entire family are outlaws. Who would have known.

Sweaty Paula Deen pictured ‘making a comeback’ while swigging from a tequila bottle and riding Food Network star Robert Irvine like a pony

Deen turned a cooking demo in Miami this weekend into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year

Without ever explicitly discussing the allegations, she said she was glad to be back and that, ‘I am not a quitter’ The Southern chef yelled ‘where ya’ll going?’ when people walked out during her chicken and dumplings cooking lesson

It’s clear that at least some of the jurors in both cases took the principle of “stand your ground” into account to some degree during deliberations… ]Whether or not jurors in Florida are technically instructed to apply the “stand your ground” component of self-defense law, it’s increasingly clear that they are, at minimum, confused about it (understandably) and may even be starting to apply it reflexively.

Yes, Dunn’s attorney argued traditional self-defense. But, as former assistant U.S. attorney David Weinstein told the Associated Press, “I think people will say that because some of the language from the stand your ground statute gets embedded into the jury instructions, that stand your ground has an effect.”

I might go further. I might say that whether or not specific jurisdictions define self-defense to include a duty to retreat, and whether or not specific juries are charged to apply it, America is quickly becoming one big “stand your ground” state, as a matter of culture if not the letter of the law.

Self-defense laws: bad because I think people are obviously too stupid to apply them the way I think they should.

Yup. And then worked at daddy’s law firm before deciding to be a journalist. Basically any of the practicing lawyers who post on Hit and Run are more qualified to cover the Supreme Court than Lithwick. She went to a high end everyone gets an A law school, did a year as a clerk, answered the phones for daddy for a year and then moved on to being a professional hack.

There have to be hundreds of burned out lawyers who have practiced before the court who would happily take her gig and actually have some intelligent things to say. Lithwick is hired to preach the party line to the faithful. I think the fact that she is stupid and unqualified is what made her an attractive candidate to Slate. If she had any brains or qualifications, there would be some danger she might stray from the party line.

In 2009, Lithwick wrote an article for Slate titled “I Need a Hero: Seeking a bomb-throwing, passionate, visionary, liberal Scalia for a seat on the Supreme Court.” In the article, she called for President Obama to nominate a person who was “some cross between Rachel Maddow and Emma Goldman.”

Neither of whom were lawyers. Presumably that shouldn’t be a requirement for the Supreme Court bench in Dahlia’s world

Earl Warren was a governor. He might have been a lawyer, but he hadn’t been a practicing one in a long time.

I am actually a bit sympathetic to the idea that someone other than a member of the Ivy League Constitutional Law Priesthood should be nominated to the court. But Lithwick doesn’t want diversity. She just wants a better hack.

Absolutely RBS. Worse than that, no one who is in the defense bar will ever sniff the court. You only get on the court by being a government hack.

The Court doesn’t have a single member who has ever had defend someone in traffic court much less an actual trial. But that doesn’t stop them from pontificating on how the law really works and should be.

It’s clear that at least some of the jurors in both cases took the principle of “stand your ground” into account to some degree during deliberations… ]Whether or not jurors in Florida are technically instructed to apply the “stand your ground” component of self-defense law, it’s increasingly clear that they are, at minimum, confused about it (understandably) and may even be starting to apply it reflexively.

Yes, Dunn’s attorney argued traditional self-defense. But, as former assistant U.S. attorney David Weinstein told the Associated Press, “I think people will say that because some of the language from the stand your ground statute gets embedded into the jury instructions, that stand your ground has an effect.”

I might go further. I might say that whether or not specific jurisdictions define self-defense to include a duty to retreat, and whether or not specific juries are charged to apply it, America is quickly becoming one big “stand your ground” state, as a matter of culture if not the letter of the law.

Self-defense laws: bad because I think people are obviously too stupid to apply them the way I think they should.

Lithwick only has a job because Linda Greenhouse has to be able to point to someone as dumber and more dishonest than she is.

Jurors in this country have a sense of justice and fair play that comes for our culture. For this reason they take claims of self defense very seriously and are hesitant to convict someone where the victim was the initial aggressor. Lithwick, being a Prog, thinks cases should be decided on emotions and as much as possible the race and social status of the two parties and thus is appalled by these sorts of results.

And sex. Don’t forget the Alexander case the left paraded around during the Zimmerman fiasco as proof that SYG is sexist, or racist, or something. Apparently tackling your victim for some ground-and-pound action doesn’t qualify as aggression, and neither does returning to the house to fire a “warning shot” at your husband.

In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which outlawed the private ownership of gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates by American citizens, forcing them to sell these to the Federal Reserve. As a result, the value of the gold held by the Federal Reserve increased from $4 billion to $12 billion between 1933 and 1937.

Joe Biden is pretty confident in his basketball skills. Speaking at a Naval Observatory reception celebrating Black History Month, the vice president warned Sacramento mayor and former NBA player Kevin Johnson not to underestimate his abilities on the court.

“I told the president, next game I have him,” Biden told the crowd. “Just remember I may be a white boy, but I can jump.”

Later, mentioning the importance of the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Biden criticized the Supreme Court for striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act last year. He also condemned the passage of voter-ID laws in different states and and called for an end to “this kind of malarkey” by their proponents.

So the new conspiracy meme running around Facebook is that Bengazi was a setup. The allegation is that the Obama people wanted to release the Blind Sheikh to endear themselves to the Muslim Brotherhood and also give Obama a chance to look Presidential. The alleged plan was to have the militias kidnap the ambassador who would then be traded for the release of the Blink Sheikh. The of course fucked up the plan because they forget about the two CIA former seals who were next door and showed up to put up a fight both getting the Ambassador killed and convincing the militias they had been betrayed.

It is a crazy theory but it does explain a lot of things that are otherwise totally unexplainable like why an ambassador was there and without security (something that is totally inexplicable to anyone who has ever dealt with DOS), why the White House went to such huge lengths to not send the military in (they would have screwed up the kidnapping), and why they made up the ludicrous video story (if they had called it terrorism they would have had to have gone after the perpetrators, you know the people they made a deal with).

It is unlikely to be true of course. But the fact that it is even believable and would explain a good number of their actions tells you all you need to know about how vile and incompetent these people are.

CPAC won’t let the atheists have a booth. The stupid party strikes again. These morons can’t help themselves. If there is an opportunity to engage in a completely pointless act that will allow the media to over play it to confirm their stereotypes, these idiots will take it every single time.

The duty to retreat basically tells people under attack that they have to first risk death and harm in an attempt to escape their attacker before they can defend themselves.

For example, a person is walking to their car on a dark night and is confronted by a man with a knife in the parking lot. In a duty to retreat state, the victim couldn’t pull out a gun and threaten the man or defend themselves without first trying to make a run for it. Duty to retreat means, if there is an avenue of escape you have to take it even if that means risking the person catching you and harming you. When they catch you, you can then defend yourself since you have met your duty to retreat, but not before.

When I shave, I get a five o’clock shadow by noon. I’d love to be able to make it to the end of the work day before looking scruffy again, but my genes have decided that I will have a beard whether I want one or not. At some point he’s going to change his mind and then complain about the implants behaving differently when shaved.

“How fucking big of a desperate attention-needing douchebag fuck do you need to be to have this procedure? If you can’t grow a beard it wasn’t meant to be. But no – Tristan, Sallinger, Harrison and Brent – who have the combined body mass and strength of Nancy Reagan and Estelle Getty – will stop at nothing to “fit in” during their kidult playcation in Brooklyn. It’s just a phone call away to Mommy for a quick wire transfer of $8,500. Somebody should stand in front of one of these doctor’s offices and greet the wannabe beardo as he walks out with a big cardboard sign that says PUSSY in big bold letters. Isn’t it going to be strange when Hayden shows up to kickball practice, or artisanal pickling class, or to his local gentrification craft ale watering hole and his bearded buddies see his beard when they already knew his inbred emaciated face was incapable of growing hair?

The beard is now a symbol of the effeminate Brooklyn hipster. Not gay, but straight and effeminate. I cringe whenever I see these rent-raising faux lumberjack beardos; and now there will be even more of them?? It blows my mind how Brooklyn’s image has turned from a kind of tough yet loved & forgiving place and melting pot for the world into a place known for adult crafts; over priced and over-hyped food; rooftop kale gardens; $10 latte sipping; and horrific art galleries.”

And there are dozens or more videos just like that of cops all over the country. Did you see the one of the cop in New York who attacked the guy for filming him? Or the account the blogger in San Fransisco gave of the cop beating the shit out of him because he made the mistake of calling 911 for a hurt cyclist?

They are animals. And thanks to unions and crooked DAS are in virtually no danger of being held accountable. The cop in Culpepper, Virginia murdered a woman sitting in a church parking lot and only got manslaughter and if he is not out of prison already will be with in a year or two. They can murder you and the worst they will face, if anything is manslaughter and a few years in private cop jail hanging out with the child sex perverts.

I’d think at this point hearing the words “stop resisting” out of a cop’s mouth would justify any and all efforts to escape given that the cops in question have probably lost all control of themselves at that point.

Yup. And they can arrest you any time they feel like it. Sure the DA will drop the charges. But you will still spend at least a night or maybe more time in jail, be totally humiliated and raped if you are not lucky. And since sovereign immunity is so strong and the laws are so vague, they will never even be reprimanded for it.

The case of the San Fransisco blogger I mentioned above is a great example of that. He wasn’t doing anything but standing there and the cop tackled him and beat the shit out of him and took him to jail leaving him to rot until Monday. When he was released the deputy said “here is your court date show up on time and the charge will be dismissed”. The Deputy knew it was a made up charge. When the guy asked “then why am I here?”, the Deputy responded “a lot of young deputies out there looking to make a name for themselves”. No shit.

I taught a legal class for the Army a while back and the subject of probable cause for arrest came up. Two black men in that class told stories of walking down the street and being arrested for nothing only to later be released and told by the jailers they were arrested because the cops needed to make sure they arrested someone that shift.

Most people have no idea the danger they are in when they interact with a cop in public.

Make of it what you will: years ago there was a bully in my high school. No one would stand up to him. One night, after a dance, he came out to find his precious car smeared all over – inside and out – with dog shit. Never bullied anyone again.

Basically, if you are a business in the “clean zone” (which is just about all downtown Mpls), you can’t get a permit to add extra outdoor seating or run any other goofy promotions to get more customers unless you get MLB’s OK.

MLB also gets to run all the riverfront parks for two weeks around the All Star game.

President Obama will announce either a new $302 billion transportation bill this year, or the “vision” for one.

POS flew to St. Paul, MN to give his little speech about this today. Don’t they have cameras and podiums in DC? Glad he didn’t come to Minneapolis for this. I hate it when this POS shuts down the city for hours. Fuck him.

I heard on the radio this morning that “Republican Jan Brewer” was going to sign that bill in Arizona about the gays. I also heard that “Senate Leaders” say they won’t be supporting Obama’s proposed legislation.